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Review
. 2006;10(4):157.
doi: 10.1186/cc4994.

Attributable cost of methicillin resistance: an issue that is difficult to evaluate

Jean-François Timsit  1
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Review

Attributable cost of methicillin resistance: an issue that is difficult to evaluate

Jean-François Timsit. Crit Care. 2006.

Abstract

Estimating the consequences and the cost of methicillin resistance is a difficult challenge. Patients who develop methicillin-resistant ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) are very different from those who develop methicillin-sensitive VAP, and biased estimates are frequent. We reviewed some important confounding factors of which the reader should be aware.

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